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I'm not sure why rallycross hasn't taken on over here, as it's a perfect motorsport.

I personally think they tried to run before they could walk and rallycross in the US may have priced itself out of existence. Neither the Lites nor Supercars are cheap to run but, thanks to the manufacturer involvement, the latter class has become stupidly expensive to participate in if you want to have any hope of winning. Dodge, Honda and various others baulked at the costs when it was GRC and now even VW have pulled out.

I think it would be fair to level the same criticism at the World Championship: that has rapidly grown with appeasing manufacturer demands as the priority, but now the manufacturers have all stepped back and the whole thing is left as a very expensive proposition for privateers. Of course there is a much deeper pool of cars and drivers to draw from in Europe.

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I was last year at the WRX Estering event. Amazing track and atmosphere. also a lot of visitors. The first turn is awesome. Also the uphil part at the last part of the track is crazy. The cars throwing all stones to the spectators. Really need to watch out and were safety glasses. At the end of the weekend i collected some dirt in my DiRT Rally 2.0 shirt 😛

Also i had something designed from EKS and printed a board. It's about a meter wide. Brought it to the paddock at the end of Saturday where Mattias and Andreas signed it 🙂 I got actually two of these signed. They are now in my room, not really know yet what i will do with both. One i will probably hand and the other one i might sell to someone who is interested.

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I can't wait for Estering to get added: I suspect everyone is going to be using their first go to try big entries into turn one!

I went to the Titans RX rounds at Lydden last weekend. Had to leave early on Saturday and, although I was annoyed at having to miss the semis and finals, the weather was bloody awful so not sad to get out of the rain! Much more pleasant on Sunday, though some frustration with repeat delays throughout the day.

The Titans are definitely quick and loud, my only real gripe with them is the look: some of the shells are OK, some look really ungainly. Think they'd have been much better off going with sleek RX Lite style shell for the whole field, then having more colourful liveries to distinguish between the cars.

Some good racing throughout and some very "robust" driving. Apparently there were penalties issued for corner cutting, but a lot of drivers seemed to be majorly trimming the grass at North Bend. I think the absence of joker laps made a massive difference, most of the races (when they eventually came) were close.

Eight car Supercar final to round off the weekend which was cool. Rene Munnich was in a class of his own, though notable that Julian Godfrey wasn't that far behind him. Impressive drive from Donnelly as well, he didn't seem to take long to get to grips with the C4.

Unfortunately there were issues with the Doran RS200: was looking forward to seeing that car getting thrashed again!